The wheel of life is a visual tool that’s used to assess your work/life balance.
What is the Wheel of Life?
The Wheel of Life is a simple but powerful tool that helps you visualize all the important areas of your life at once.
The wheel of life, also known as the “life balance wheel,” “the coaching wheel” or the “life wheel,” is used to assess and understand how areas in your life are currently balanced and to help achieve a work-life balance.
The circle resembles the spokes of a wheel and is used to present and organize the most important aspects of your life, such as family and home life, health and wellbeing and career and finances. Paul J. Meyer, one of the originators of what is now known as life coaching and the founder of the Success Motivation Institute, developed the wheel of life’s modern-day version in 1960.
Taking a moment to pull back and look at your life as a whole can help you identify which areas need attention to bring you back into balance.
Download the wheel of life template here and start by plotting each area of your life. Use the document to identify how happy you are with each area of your life right now. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being completely happy). This will provide you with a visual representation of how happy you are with each aspect of your life and when you connect the dots to form a circle, you can quickly and easily identify areas of your life that you need to work on this month.
Use this information to re-balance your life, regain focus for the coming months and work on areas that are lacking so you can reflect on your progress each month.